Sentence examples for play sinister from inspiring English sources

And he can certainly play sinister: He has described his English gangster character in "Sexy Beast" as "possibly the most violent man on the planet".

"When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts.

(Though poor Lugosi turns up in a couple of them, playing sinister servants).

Alongside Nicholson, Chinatown features career-best performances from Faye Dunaway – who notoriously clashed on set with director Polanski – and legendary film-maker John Huston, who played sinister landowner Noah Cross.

Their fifth case, Prayers For Rain, brings the now romantically separated protagonists together in a case involving corruption, the secrets of a wealthy family, twisted kidnappers, a brutal mafioso and a frightening sociopath adept at playing sinister cat-and-mouse games with his intended victims.

Rumours suggest he might play a sinister old Jedi but that remains to be seen.

In David Fincher's version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, you play the sinister Martin.

What, after all, was the central offence of the Watergate affair but the series of dirty tricks that allowed Richard Nixon to play a sinister and unhelpful part in choosing his Democratic opponent in 1972, the unelectable liberal senator George McGovern?

In The Ladykillers he crossed the Thames to play the sinister Professor Marcus, who emerges, so we infer, from a madhouse to lead four seedy social misfits in a robbery at King's Cross St Pancras station, an area of decaying Victorian splendour, bustling platforms, goods yards, steam trains entering and leaving grimy tunnels, all beautifully captured and charmingly integrated into the plot.

By covalently modifying membrane-associated proteins, the membrane lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) may play particularly sinister roles in the metabolic syndrome and associated disease processes.

Then again, the destruction of others in pursuit of singular aims is what gives the play its sinister quality.